State president of BJP Nand Kishore Yadav conceded that the Bihar organisational issue would come up in a big way during the three-day national executive meeting being held in Goa from Friday.After the revocation of President's Rule, the State unit is finding itself in a precarious situation. The only issue that has kept alive the activities of the party is the sustained attack on the Congress from its stand on President's Rule.

Even senior party leaders confide that it has lost much of the aggressiveness witnessed during the past couple of years in the wake of exposure of the fodder scam.

While inertia grips the party, the functionaries are confused about their future moves. The top priority of the party has now emerged as facing the next Assembly polls. The Bharatiya Yuva Morcha, in fact,had a lengthy deliberation at its national meet held in Patna from March 27 to 29 on how to protect polling booths. It decided to form a group of cadre from each booth.

During the past couple of years the BJP has been using the charges of corruption and the CBI probe into the fodder scam as a weapon against Laloo Prasad. The State leaders were hopeful that after the installation of a BJP Government at the Centre, the CBI probe would be expedited. But to their dismay, the pace has considerably slowed down during the past one year. This has been a source of embarrassment for the party leadership.

The monitoring bench of the Patna High Court has been severely pulling up the CBI for slow pace of progress but the CBI officials are unable to give the main reason for this. A senior BJP leader confided that during the past one year, Leader of the Opposition Sushil Mody had on at least four occasions requested the Central leaders to remove some of the key officers from the investigation agency who, according tohim, have been trying to scuttle the probe. But the Central ministers and even Advani has expressed his helplessness.

In a do-or-die move, the State leadership handed over a memorandum to Vajpayee last October in Patna, drawing his attention towards these facts but to no avail. Thus the only plank on which the BJP has been trying to mobilise public opinion in its favour has been gradually slipping out of their hand.

There is a strong feeling in BJP circles that with Laloo Prasad ruling the roost and in command of the bureaucracy, the BJP cannot hope to emerge victorious in the Assembly polls. They also confess that in the present political scenario, it would be a tough proposition, to ensure RJD's defeat.The BJP leadership is content in the belief that the Congress support base is gradually shifting towards them and the Congress would turn into a non-entity soon. Their assessment is based on the fact that the Congress has lost the initiative during these years and is now virtually seen as the `B' team ofLaloo Prasad. The revocation of Central Rule because of the party's opposition has put the State unit in a bind.

However, BJP detractors blame the present functionaries for making the party directionless. Expelled BJP leader Yashodanand Singh said, "they should evolve their own strategy and come to the street. The Centre will never ask them to abandon their agitation against the RJD."